Yoko Kanno

For three years Kanno began playing the piano and composing music. At the time of graduation she was already well-established musician and composer, owning all musical styles and a variety of musical instruments (from piano to trumpet).

Kanno his professional career began in 1987 when she became the keyboardist and songwriter of the group "Tetsu 100%" and worked there until the dissolution of the group in 1989.

In 1987 she also started working in the company "Koei", which made computer games, and wrote a lot of music for the PC and consoles

. In the history of anime Kanno debuted sauntrekom for the movie "Macross Plus" [Macross Plus] (1994) directed by Shoji Kawamori, . then left her job in "Koei" and devoted himself entirely to work independently as a composer, . arranger and producer of soundtracks anime, . Film and TV films, . as well as recording solo albums and writing music for the J-Pop CDs of other artists,

Kanno often works in tandem with composer and cellist Hajime Mizoguchi. She also produces singer Sakamoto Maayu (singer Hitomi role in TV series "The Vision Eskaflona") and is a member of the group "Samply Red", writing instrumental music for film and advertising.

Basis of art Kanno - a combination of traditions of classical and modern symphonic music Rear headrests. Her works were written with such well-known symphony orchestras, bands like Israel, Czech and Warsaw Philharmonics. She herself - a brilliant singer-keyboardist (piano, synthesizer, accordion), and very often wrote poems to his own songs and performs them (under the pseudonym Gabriela Robin).